Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ni-

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Negating prefix applied specifically on pronouns, most certainly of the same origin as Proto-Slavic *ni (“neither, not even”).

*ni-

1. no- (with interrogatory pronouns)

• *nikъ(jь) (“nobody”), *ničьjь (“nobody's”)
• *nikъto, *ničьto (“nothing”)
• *nikъterъ (“none, nobody”)
• *nikako, *nijako (“in no way”)
• *nikakъ, *nijakъ (“neither, none”)
• *nikoli (“for nothing”)
• *nikogъda, *nikъda, *nikъdy (“never”)
• *nikъde (“nowhere”)
• *nikǫda (“to nowhere”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ні- (ni-)
  • Russian: ни- (ni-)
  • Ukrainian: ні- (ni-)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ни- (ni-)
  • Bulgarian: ни́- (ní-)
  • Macedonian: ни- (ni-)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ни̏-

    Latin script: nȉ-

  • Slovene: ni-
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ni-
  • Polish: ni-
  • Slovak: ni-
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: ni-
    • Upper Sorbian: ni-

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*ničьjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 111
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*ničьto”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 112
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nikako/*nikakъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 113
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nikogъda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 115
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nikoli”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 116
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nikǫda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 116
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nikъde”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 118
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nikъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 119
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nikъterъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 119